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Chris Evans covers Details May 2012 and talks about his career, auditioning, the egoic mind, Eastern philosophy and Boston girls. Check out these highlights from his interview!

Chris Evans covers Details May 2012. The 30-year-old actor sits
down for a chat with the magazine and dishes on a wide range of
topics including panic attacks and his hesitation at signing on for
Captain America. "I get very nervous," Evans explains. "I s**t the
bed if I have to present something on stage or if I'm doing press.
Because it's just you," Evans says.

On auditioning, The Avengers actor confesses that, "Do you know how
badly I audition? Fifty percent of the time I have to walk out of
the room. I'm naturally very pale, so I turn red and sweat. And I
have to literally walk out. Sometimes mid-audition. You start
having these conversations in your brain. 'Chris, don't do this.
Chris, take it easy. You're just sitting in a room with a person
saying some words, this isn't life. And you're letting this affect
you? Shame on you.'"

Evans recalls one on-set panic attack while he was shooting
Puncture. "We were getting ready to do a court scene in front of a
bunch of people, and I don't know what happened," he says. "It's
just your brain playing games with you. 'Hey, you know how we
sometimes freak out? What if we did it right now?'"

At 17, Evans came across a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha
and it was then when his spiritual search began. The actor says
that this is a path of study and struggle that defines his true
purpose in life. "I love acting. It's my playground, it lets me
explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is
never going to be dictated by acting," he told Details. "My goal in
life is to detach from the egoic mind. Do you know anything about
Eastern philosophy?"

He then continues explaining that, "They talk about the egoic mind,
the part of you that's self-aware, the watcher, the person you
think is driving this machine. And that separation from self and
mind is the root of suffering. There are ways of retraining the way
you think. This isn't really supported in Western society, which is
focused on 'Go get it, earn it, win it, marry it.'"

Evans also says that, "I think my daytime person is different than
my nighttime person. With my high-school buddies, we drink beer and
talk sports and it's great. The kids in my Buddhism class in L.A.,
they're wildly intelligent, and I love being around them, but
they're not talking about the Celtics. And that's part of me. It's
a strange dichotomy. I don't mind being a certain way with some
people and having this other piece of me that's just for me."

Arguing about egoic brains and the tao of Boston girls, Evans says
in the interview with Details magazine that, "I love wet hair and
sweatpants. I like sneakers and ponytails. I like girls who aren't
so la-di-da. L.A. is so la-di-da. I like Boston girls who s**t on
me. Not literally. Girls who give me a hard time, bust my chops a
little," he says.